Israel has maples? That's neat. Do you know the Latin names and
distributions by any chance? I live in Arizona, USA, where the southern
limit of the distributions of North American maples is reached just south of
our border with Mexico on the north-facing slopes of 2000+ m mountains. I'd
be interested in the Middle East counterparts. Does Morocco have maples?

Frank

"Iris Cohen" wrote in message
...
Somebody from Israel wrote to rec.gardens asking for the ID of a tree. All
he
gave us to go on was a drawing of a samara. I first thought of maples
(there
are 2 in Israel), but come to find out it is Tipuana tipu, common name
Pride of
Bolivia (although it comes from eastern SA). Belongs to the Papilionaceae,
with
yellow pea flowers, & is widely planted in warm countries. Anybody know if
there are any other Papilionaceae that produce samaras or keys? I thought
they
all stuck to pods. Never too old to learn something new, as Laun (?) says.
Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so
much
that ain't so."
Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw), 1818-1885